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Transcript of Peter Young's ARZone Live Guest Chat 

13 August 2011

6pm US Eastern Time

11pm UK time…

This time the ARZone team explore the ideology of speciesism and The Big C - Capitalism. Using themes from Professor David Nibert's "entanglements thesis," should we understand speciesism as rather more than simply a…

Thanks again, Kate, for the link to Oscar Horta’s paper, which I am very glad to have gotten. To avoid wasting space or being too tangential, I am responding to it here, rather than as part of the David Nibert dialogue. 

Professor Horta does a good job in laying out the philosophical options, and, in fact, ratifies my own point when he writes: “The term ‘anthropocentrism’ should be clearly distinguishable from ‘speciesism.’ These two words are not synonyms.” (p.…

I’ve come a long way in the last year after first viewing The Cove movie. It has launched me on a mission wherein I shall not back down or relent. I don’t get paid a single cent to do what I do. I do it simply because it is the right thing to do. I do it because I want my children to forever know that I did all that I could. The atrocities in…

‘If the times aren’t ripe, you have to ripen the times.’ - Dorothy Height, educator and social activist (1912-2010)

This month, a humane group announced a proposal to adjust the confinement standards for some chickens – specifically, egg-laying hens. …

This time the ARZone team of Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier, and Roger Yates are joined by "wildlife rehabilitator" Emma Kaczmarczyk to talk about the rehabilitation of "wildlife" and, in particular, the ethics of feeding flesh or other animal products to the recovering animals and…

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.  Genesis 1:29

There are carnivorous animals in this world who do not kill their own prey. They are…

Transcript of Prof. David Nibert’s Live Guest Chat

30 July 2011

6pm US Eastern Time

11pm UK Time…

ARZone's special guest for PC7 is Ronnie "The General" Lee, longtime British animal protectionist, co-founder of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and ethical vegan since 1971.



Ronnie provides ARZone Podcast listeners with an action-packed trip down memory lane as well as a powerful…

Transcript of Katrina Fox’s Live ARZone Guest Chat

23 July 2011

6pm US Eastern Time

11pm UK Time…

Hi folks, as a way of introducing myself & philosophy here’s something that we (my partner in life & …. …activism, Richard) are putting together for the upcoming  Book Fair http://www.amelbournebookfair..org/ on the 13^th August. 

I believe it’s important that ‘movements’ work together to overcome all forms of oppression.  Anarchism holds the most promise for the foundation of the new society we know we must…

A scene from Shakespeare’s 1602 play wot I just wrote.[1]

An inn in Scotland.

Donald: Angus!

Angus: Donald! Have ye had y’tea?

Donald: I have!

Angus: Good news my man, good news. Now did ye hear the latest scandal?

Donald: Tell me more, I don’t think I have.

Angus: Well you know…

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Maybe it's just late and I'm over thinking this ... but

What are the "vegan values" for including animals and things like eggs in visual art?

This is one of my paintings, which includes an image of an injured/dead bird.

Cyn McCurry, a fabulous artist, does paintings which include images of eggs ... like this…

This time the ARZone team of Carolyn Bailey, Barbara DeGrande, Tim Gier and Roger Yates explore the difficult and complex issue about whether human beings should interfere in the lives of other animals - indeed, should we, as philosopher David Pearce suggests, micro-manage every part of the planet in the name…

Transcript of Will Potter's Live ARZone Guest Chat

9 July 2011

6pm US Eastern Time

11pm UK Time…